Sentences with phrase «when global efforts»

«Even when global efforts fail, we show that local policies can still have a positive impact,» Tol said in the statement, «making them at least a useful insurance for bad climate outcomes on the international stage.»

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

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Thomas Sehested, CEO and co-founder of GAN integrity, a compliance technology platform, explains why these technologies are ineffective when it comes to global compliance efforts «Global compliance teams suffer because the technology offered to support compliance programs has been fragmented with activity - specific vendors, which hinders easy reporting and increases administrative headache and cost.&global compliance efforts «Global compliance teams suffer because the technology offered to support compliance programs has been fragmented with activity - specific vendors, which hinders easy reporting and increases administrative headache and cost.&Global compliance teams suffer because the technology offered to support compliance programs has been fragmented with activity - specific vendors, which hinders easy reporting and increases administrative headache and cost.»

My colleagues at the McKinsey Global Institute, our firm's business and economics research arm, have analyzed previous downturns and found that when individuals and governments focus on paying down debt, these efforts curb economic growth for three to five years.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

When you look at it, Stephen, we still have a pretty large opportunity for our global sourcing efforts, and we've been working very diligently over the last many years.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

Our global efforts began in the late 1960s, when it became obvious that the clearing of forests and degradation of oceans affects us all regardless how well we're protecting our own backyard.

Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new U.N. climate pact in 2015 alive on Saturday when rich and poor countries reached a compromise on sharing out the efforts needed to slow global warming.

PCC's efforts are just one example of efforts to attain a global goal set 15 years ago, when world leaders committed themselves to decreasing the maternal death rate by 75 percent from 1990 to 2015.

The second thing we did, and I'm really pleased to tell you that as awful as this has been for the countries involved, and it has been and remains awful when it happens, we invested specifically in the nearby countries: Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, to make sure it didn't go further and create a global emergency that just the scope of which would overwhelm all of our public health efforts.

«We felt great about how the collaboration worked out because we think, in the future, our efforts here can serve as the foundation to hit the ground running when faced with another global health crisis.»

President Macron also announced actions in agricultural and solar technologies that would enhance the UNCCD's global efforts to ensure that by 2030 and going forward, the amount of degraded land is equivalent to or less that the land we had degraded by 2015 when the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted.

«Today's global assessment is a wake - up call to redouble efforts to work out when and where major problems are expected.»

When BlackRock Inc. agreed this month to acquire Barclays PLC's Barclays Global Investors, the giant index and exchange - traded - fund business, BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink cited investor efforts to cut costs through passive strategies as an impetus for the deal.

When I first purchased my Xbox 360 way, way back in 2008 I came across a simple little twin stick shooter that, despite a relatively steep learning curve, enthralled me to the point where I would eschew big triple A titles like Gears of War in order to spend time trying to master the Robotron: 2084 inspired gameplay, frantically diving back into the fray time and time again in an effort to top my previous score and gain one of the coveted top spots on the global leaderboard.

In an emergency broadcast, the Global Relief Effort has urged the survivors of Harran to use extreme caution when handling Antizin injections.

When it is assumed that the CO2 content of the atmosphere is doubled and statistical thermal equilibrium is achieved, the more realistic of the modeling efforts predict a global surface warming of between 2 °C and 3.5 °C, with greater increases at high latitudes.

He seemed to hit his stride from 2008 through 2010, when those fighting efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions were buoyed by email hacks, the Great Recession, the breakdown of climate talks in Copenhagen and a stutter - step in the global warming trend.

The sculpture came to mind again this week when Anthony Leiserowitz, a Yale University researcher leading a longstanding effort to understand attitudes on global warming, distributed a note asking, «Is There a Climate «Spiral of Silence» in America?»

But I do know how science works, and it doesn't work when christian libertarian scientists sit back in their armchairs, and by merely lifting a little finger, are able to pronounce that markets will accomplish the global implementation of alternative energy, and that no effort by christian libertarian scientists is necessary at all.

That's because when you really look at it, you will see that even a massive global effort to build thousands of new nuclear power plants would have only a modest impact on GHG emissions and even that impact won't occur for decades.

His story was picked up by the media in Canada (Global News, CBC, CTV, Winnipeg Sun, Winnipeg Free Press), and hopefully this bad luck can be turned into something good because of the extra attention going to his charity efforts («when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade»).

When we track it back to your source, we find: «The world's temperature is on course to rise by more than three degrees Centigrade despite efforts to combat global warming, Britain's chief scientist has warned.»

SciDev.Net: Fast - developing countries such as India should offer up their domestic action plans as part of global efforts when the world gathers for the UN climate talks in Copenhagen this December, says Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Science makes mistakes, as did NASA when it published data on global warming trends in an effort to gauge the warmest years in U.S. history.

It would not surprise Victor if senior U.S. political and business leaders make a point of traveling the world to let them know that the country has a plan for rejoining global climate efforts for when Trump leaves.

This is extraordinary when one considers how the mainstream media, the curriculums in the nation's schools, and the unceasing efforts of major environmental organizations have tried to impose the global warming claims on the public.

When offsets are included — through «flexible» market mechanisms — developed countries account for as little as 35 percent of global efforts.

When presented with FACTS about the very real human suffering caused by their fans (ie the daily acoustic misery lived by thousands of people globally, just like those in this video) these monsters fallback on the «threat» of man - made catastrophic global warming in an effort to justify it.

I firmly believe that when the history of our era is written, future generations will look back with puzzlement and wonder why we spent so much time and effort on global warming fears and pointless solutions, such as the Kyoto Protocol.»

The study, by carbon trading thinktank Sandbag, found that a huge oversupply of carbon pollution permits means many are being banked to enable emissions after 2020, when efforts to tackle global warming should be intensifying.

Each country will have taken a range of factors into account when working out how much to pledge, Oxfam previously told Carbon Brief: from how much of its existing budget can be channelled towards climate change efforts, to how much political will it has for a new global climate deal in 2015.

This should ensure a much strong agreement when a global price is negotiated because voting for a higher price does not simply burden your own country, it harnesses the efforts of all other countries on your behalf.

But global efforts to revolutionize the world's energy supply and slow down climate change are way off track when it comes to meeting this arguably unambitious goal.

When a Penn State board of inquiry unilaterally decided that Michael Mann had broken no rules in the climate - data scandal, global - warming alarmists breathed a sigh of relief, thinking the most damaging episode in their effort to save the planet was behind them.

An elemental question begs to be corroborated in more than one way for sheer fairness: When the main pushers of the idea that the «reposition global warming» phrase insinuate it is proof of an industry - led disinformation effort employing crooked skeptic climate scientists — Naomi Oreskes saying it indicates a plot to supply «alternative facts,» Gelbspan saying it is a crime against humanity, and Al Gore implying it is a cynical oil company effort — are they truly oblivious to the necessity of corroborating whether or not that phrase and the memo subset it came from actually had widespread corrupting influence, or did they push this «evidence» with malice knowing it was worthless?

In a lame effort to fill out the TRNN video with other material which looked like fossil fuel industry orchestrating things, a line from the American Petroleum Institute's 1998 leaked «Global Climate Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.»

But Gelbspan's more recent unwise comment was one that appeared at his personal page on October 31st (click on the «1 comment» link there, also captured in this screencapture for posterity) where he was commenting on a New York Times article which speculated about the outcome of the New York state attorney general's efforts to look into Exxon's alleged coverup of «what they knew about the certainty of man - caused global warming and when they knew it»:

The contrast between saving lives today and aiming at tomorrow becomes clear when efforts to tackle global warming are included in the comparison.

Even when we disagree with conservative philosophies (there are more than one), we should make that a seperate issue rather than hampering the effort to combat global warming by trying to bury conservatism based on the fact free bias of some conservatives.

The hubbub was sparked when retired NOAA data scientist John Bates claimed in a blog post that his boss, then - director of the National Centers for Environmental Information Thomas Karl, «constantly had his «thumb on the scale» — in the documentation, scientific choices and release of datasets — in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus» and rushed a study published in the journal Science before international climate negotiations.

The 43rd Session of the IPCC held in April 2016 agreed that the AR6 Synthesis Report would be finalized in 2022 in time for the first UNFCCC global stocktake when countries will review progress towards their goal of keeping global warming to well below 2 °C while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C.

Photo via: CateBlanchett Copenhagen is the place to rendezvous this year when it comes to global warming and the latest gathering geared to this effort was the World Business Summit on Climate Change

So last year, when the world's leaders met in Paris, they set a new number: Every effort, they said, would be made to keep the global temperature rise to less than 1.5 degrees.

If and when that happens, we will have lost all effective influence on global warming — barring, of course, the heroic effort of massive «geo - engineering,» such as injecting sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere.

We would like to believe we're leaders on the effort to combat global warming, yet the two main political parties, when in power, haven't

Not only did it make many newspaper headlines [New Research Questions Uniqueness of Recent Warming, Past Climate Change Questioned etc.] when it first appeared, it also was raised in the US Senate as a reason for the US not to join the global climate protection efforts.

When they do, the impact of the US - China deal on global efforts to combat climate change will become much clearer.

This is partly the result of technology that tethers workers to their jobs even when away from the office and partly the result of increasing global competition that demands more and more effort to stay ahead.